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Tennessee Titans defensive lineman Jurrell Casey says he plans to protest
during the national anthem this season Willie Brown
Jersey , even if it means getting a fine.

Casey tells CNN that ”I’m going to take a fine this year, why not? I’m going
to protest during the flag. That’s what I’m going to say now.”

Titans officials had no immediate response.

The NFL approved a policy in May allowing players to protest during the
national anthem by staying in the locker room but forbidding them from sitting
or taking a knee if they’re on the field.

The NFL Players Association has filed a grievance with the league to
challenge the policy.

Casey raised a fist at the end of the national anthem before games last
season.

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The odds are longer than a Stephen Curry 3-pointer, Kevin Durant’s wingspan
or Draymond Green’s catalog of technical fouls.

LeBron James and the Cavaliers are being given little – or no – chance of
winning their fourth straight NBA Finals matchup against the Golden State
Warriors, who have been installed by Las Vegas bookmakers as the heaviest
favorites in the past 16 years.

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The Warriors are 12-point favorites to win Thursday’s Game 1, the largest
spread in a Finals game since 1991, according to ESPN Stats &
Information.

Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue isn’t blinking.

”We’re all focused on winning a championship,” Lue said Tuesday before the
team flew to California. ”We played our best basketball going into the playoffs.
We’ve gotten better and better throughout the course of the playoffs. Our main
focus and our main objective is to win a championship, so we can’t worry about
what the outside guys are saying and who’s being picked. We know what we have
here and what we’re trying to do.”

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season.

Lue said All-Star forward Kevin Love remains in concussion protocol and his
status for the series opener is in question. Love sat out Cleveland’s Game 7 win
at Boston on Sunday after suffering a head injury when he and Celtics rookie
forward Jayson Tatum accidentally banged heads during the opening minutes of
Game 6.

Love was replaced in the starting lineup by veteran Jeff Green, who stepped
up and scored 19 points as the Cavs completed their comeback after trailing 2-0
and 3-2 in the series.

Love is expected back for the Finals Michael
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who like the Cavs rallied to win the Western Conference finals by taking Game 7
on the road.

There was a moment when it looked as if both Cleveland and Golden State could
miss the Finals.

It disappeared quickly,

”They’ve been tested. We’ve been tested,” Lue said. ”They’ve been to Game 7s.
We’ve been to Game 7s. We’ve won championships and they’ve won championships, so
they understand what it takes and they knew what it took.”

Since the playoffs opened, Cleveland has embraced the ”Whatever It Takes”
mantra that began as a catchy organizational slogan and morphed into a way of
survival.

The Cavs have twice been pushed to seven games, overcome injuries and gotten
much-needed contributions to ease the burden on James from role players Green,
Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr.

However, in this series when every possession will be magnified, Lue will
count on four players who have been around since the Cavs first met the Warriors
in the 2015 Finals.

And because they won a championship in 2016 together Ryan
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Tristan Thompson share something special.

”Just having these guys here who have been through it, been through the tough
times, been through the great times as well, this is a bond that can’t be
broken,” Lue said. ”Just reminds me a lot of guys I played with back in the day
when you see Horace Grant, Robert Horry, Derek Fisher, just something about
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While Love has been solid, Smith and Thompson haven’t always come through
this season for Cleveland.

One of the streakiest shooters in the league, Smith has had prolonged slumps.
Thompson, who missed time with a severe calf injury, wasn’t a factor until Lue
started him in Game 7 of the Indiana series.

Lue never lost faith in either player. It’s a trust that can’t be
measured.

”I’m always going to stick behind my guys,” Lue said. ”Even when they’re
struggling, I just have confidence and a belief that when we need those guys,
and we call on those guys, they’ll be ready and they’ll produce. You’ve seen
that throughout the course of the playoffs this year and you’ve seen it the last
three years, that those guys are up for the challenge. They rise to the
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”You gotta give those guys a chance, especially when you’ve been there before
with them and you know who they are.”

Unlike the past three Finals, Lue won’t have Kyrie Irving, traded to Boston
last summer.

The All-Star point guard was Cleveland’s not-so-secret weapon, the one the
Cavs turned to in order to spell James and keep the Warriors off-balance.

”He allowed us to go one on one against the mismatches and can’t nobody stop
him one on one,” Lue said. ”We’re gonna miss that, but we’re just going to have
to play a different style of basketball without him being here.”